Facilitating video search

摘要

A method of facilitating video search is disclosed. A video on or linked to by a display page is located. A video search index entry associated with the video is generated, at least in part, using an additional information data, retrieved at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
locating a video associated with a display page; locating a video data associated with the video; matching the video to a unique event; retrieving at least in part programmatically from a location other than the display page an additional information data associated with the unique event; generating a video search index entry for the video with a first portion derived from the video data; augmenting the video search index entry with a second portion derived from the additional information data; and using a weighting equation to appropriately weight matches to index terms generated at least in part by weighting the first portion differently than the second portion.